The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched an office dedicated to exploring fintech issues, the agency’s head announced Wednesday.

Some believe that increased bank regulation is to blame for overall slower growth in commercial and industrial loans. Yet that assessment misses some important details.

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., introduced legislation Wednesday that would raise the stress testing threshold for small and community banks to $50 billion of assets.

The accreditaiton period lasts for five years, subject to annual review. This is the fourth reaccreditation for Badger State regulators since 2001.

Authorities are said to be investigating whether market makers — including three U.S. banks — suppressed prices to get higher yields on the bonds.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected to face tough questions on the OCC, Glass-Steagall and housing finance reform when he testifies on Thursday.

Along with asset and membership milestones, the credit union celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016.

A House Republican bill would allow lax lending standards to creep back into the financial system by gutting the CFPB, according to a letter from 158 law professors and scholars.

Democrats in the House and Senate introduced a bill Tuesday that would get rid of an obscure legislative process that has handcuffed rulemakings from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other regulators.

Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Patrick Harker sat down with American Banker to talk fintech, financial regulation and the economy.

The deposit insurer has stayed out of the debate over how to regulate the online lending industry. But that may be about to change.

The city joins a growing list of municipalities that have filed similar lawsuits, just two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that municipalities have standing to sue lenders under the Fair Housing Act.

U.S. payment companies frustrated by Chinese regulations blocking direct access to its vast consumer market could get a break under the terms of a new U.S.-China trade deal.

The bank is pitching digital identity products to businesses as a way to improve user experience and guard against fraud.

Recent data on derivatives suggests strongly that increased clearing has occurred apparently at the expense of reporting dealers.

The laws that force banks to know their customers are good at catching petty criminals and “wannabe” terrorists, but can’t thwart sophisticated bad actors, argues whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Restricting banking organizations’ lines of business would hurt their ability to compete in a constantly evolving financial system and to serve as sources of strength.

The company also said it believes there are no regulatory obstacles that will derail its planned acquisition of Astoria Financial.

The comment period on NCUA's notice of proposed rulemaking on alternative capital ended last week, and judging by the letters, another battle is brewing.

New York’s banking regulator on Friday filed its own individual lawsuit against the OCC's fintech charter, asking the courts to block it.